Scenery – Continuity (After Twenty Years)

SCENERY was a Czech metal band from Mohelnice and the surrounding area, active as a live touring act between 1994 and 2007, and in the studio until 2012, when their last album "Mental Confusion" was recorded and released under Pařát Productions. In 2016, the founding duo of SCENERY, Jiří "Lerry" Šmíd and Miroslav "Mik" Valouch, breathed life into a band named ARCHEONIC, which continues to function, create, record, and perform live to this day.

On the Czech metal scene, SCENERY stood out primarily due to the instrumental prowess of its members. The demanding-to-listen-to technical death metal "made in SCENERY," full of rhythmic and harmonic shifts, was/is/will be most frequently compared to the musical legacy of the immortal DEATH, an influence the band proudly acknowledged.

Following the CD reissues of the first two albums "The Drowning Shadow Of Mankind" (1997 / 2023) and "Philosophy Of Ages…" (2002 / 2024), a CD reissue of the third album "Continuity" is being released this March, exactly 20 years after its original release. Back in the day, the band self-released their first two albums only on burned CDs, which is why the Pařát Productions reissues utilized standard jewel box versions. "Continuity" became SCENERY's first recording under a record label and in a standard jewel box version, so a digipak format and bonus material—which will surely please both fans of the band and CD collectors alike—were chosen for the reissue. The modified front cover of "Continuity" highlights the fact that it is a twenty-year reissue, and a sixteen-page booklet in Czech and English, full of memories, connects the band's past with the present.